"America’s expansion into Louisiana, Florida, and Texas involved the expansion and consolidation of slavery and provided enormous markets for some of the “excess” numbers of blacks in the East, especially Virginia. Partly because of the clause in the Constitution that gave the South added political representation for three-fifths of its slave population, Southern leaders increasingly challenged restrictions on the westward expansion of slavery and the creation of new slave states. Southern slaveholding presidents governed the nation for fifty of the seventy-two years between the inaugurations of Washington and Lincoln, and before Lincoln none of the Northern presidents challenged the slaveholding interests. Since slaveholders also tended to dominate the Senate and Supreme Court, it is not surprising that America long had a proslavery foreign policy, typified by the case of the slave ship Creole, or that the succession of major political compromises, beginning with the Missouri Crisis of 1819–21, largely favored the South."
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David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the Americas (2006)
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